Ferrari boss Frederic Vasseur said the team is against the return of private testing during the season. Although the Scuderia boss admitted that unlimited testing makes it easier to overtake rivals, lifting the ban contradicts the idea of cutting costs, and there is simply no room in the calendar for additional sessions.
“Under the current budgetary constraints it is very difficult to restart testing because the costs are incredibly high,” Racingnews365 quotes Frédéric Vasseur. – If we start testing again during the season, we will have to produce twice as many engines, because we cover the distance of a race weekend in one test day. If we run twenty days of testing throughout the year, we will need the same amount of spare parts as we would need for the entire season.
In 2023 it was very difficult for us to win back due to the lack of tests, but the problems were related not only to this, but also to the fact that the correlation of data between the simulator, the wind tunnel and the real track was not always correct .
Given budgetary constraints, it is impossible to fully test again during the season. We can discuss whether we want to do one or two test sessions, but remember that we test with Pirelli for many days.
When you look at the season calendar, you see not only the races, but also three or four Pirelli test sessions. And when we try to find days for tire testing, we realize that we already have a very busy schedule.”
Source: F1 News
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